Susan Hirt Hagen Center for Civic and Urban Engagement

The Hagen Center is committed to creating and supporting civic engagement through coursework.

Faculty, whether you are a seasoned veteran of community engaged teaching, or it's your first time, we are here to help. Here's how:

• Identify a community partner
• Assist with syllabus design and course planning
• Implement and/or facilitate reflection
• Attend planning meetings, class times and final presentations
• Provide professional development opportunities for faculty
• Access to up-to-date resources in the CE field
• Serve as the university repository for records, results and reports produced by CE courses

Community Engaged Courses meet the following criteria:

• Faculty member (and/or students) works cooperatively and responsively with a community partner.
• Faculty member ensures course contributions will meet partner identified needs.
• Course syllabus will include community engagement learning goals.
• Faculty member will assign community engaged learning pre/post-test.
• Through the course, students will contribute at least 10 hours of service, support or research to the partner identified need.
• Students will complete reflection assignment.